Sorry about that title, folks. It’s actually a vague (and rather pathetic) reference to what I’ve been doing most of this early afternoon. And that’s working on LibGuides. About a year or so ago, the Consortium Library signed onto LibGuides …
Guest blogger: Mariecris
My father was the only gardener in the family. As for me, I did not inherit my father’s green thumb and as a child I developed the perception that flowers and plants were places bugs lived. Luckily, …
We’re used to seeing items from our collections show up in footnotes in scholarly articles, that sort of thing. But this weekend we had the pleasant experience of seeing a thank you to us (Nicole, Mariecris, & Arlene) show up …
It’s coming up on Alaska Civil Rights/Martin Luther King Jr. Day and once again the question has reappeared. Archivists, librarians, and historians around the state are being asked: “Where do I find the text of Elizabeth Peratrovich’s speech to the …
Being an archivist means always having something new to learn. This is Arlene. I’ve been with A&SC for just over 7 years now. So I’ve got a fairly good grasp on what collections we have–maybe not item or folder level–but …
So I (Arlene) am known around the dept as the go-to woman for deciphering handwriting. Which is rather amusing when you consider my own cursive looks like it was done by a particularly uncoordinated third-grader. Which should be no surprise …
It seems so odd for an archivist to feel as if s/he is unable to communicate. After all, we’re all about records and documents and records and documents are all about information and the transference of information. But since Sunday …
Lately we’ve been getting a lot of requests in pairs. Not the same queries, just queries for the same collection. Today we had two email requests regarding the Michael Philip collection from people who had spotted the portion of the …
The September ’09 copy of Arctic, the journal of the Arctic Institute of North America landed in our mailbox today. This is a little unusual since A&SC doesn’t actually subscribe to any journals, so the next possibility is, hey, …
Okay, so this isn’t quite how David Bowie (a new prof in English here at UAA) phrased it, we took a little dramatic license. But it’s basically the idea. Professor Bowie visited …
